Importing Blurry Pdf Files

Hello,
I am trying to place an 11 x 17" pdf file into my Indesign and it shows up really blurry. It looks fine when opened in Photoshop. The image was originally an AutoCad structural drawing (blueprint) put into pdf. I re-printed the pdf as a high print quality image. Is there a setting in AutoCad that I need to change when printing to pdf to get these images to show up clearly in InDesign? Thanks!

Take two or three steps back.
We're not familair with how you created the pdf from the AutoCad, either via Printing to Adobe PDF or the software has pdf creation built in.
In either event, that original pdf should not have been opened in Photoshop. Photoshop would have rasterized the type, no longer actual vector type but pixel based, dependent on the resolution when opening in PS.
Was there a need for Photoshop?

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